Curious Quotes

911 Curious quotes by 707 unique authors

I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to… — Pema Chodron
Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor… — Frederick Douglass
I’ve always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask... — Philip Zimbardo
I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them… — Howard Gardner
It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the… — Murray Rothbard
I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious. — Stephen Fry
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the… — George Orwell
All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the… — Vera Nazarian
I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that… — Vincent Price
Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of… — Ellen Hopkins
Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on… — Stella Gibbons
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter… — Gore Vidal
And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else.… — Kim Stanley Robinson
I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all… — Melvin Burgess
A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat… — Irvin D. Yalom
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what… — Stephen Hawking
The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing. If you follow… — Daniel Handler
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials — Jean Rhys
If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr. — Tamora Pierce
It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life. — Michel Houellebecq
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. — Victor Hugo
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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